Hello, This is probably a naieve question. Why does R store everything in double-precision format? For many circumstances (e.g., dealing with huge binary files) it seems like a waste of memory. Is there any thought of allowing the user to decide the format when assigning an object (e.g., as an option in the assign() function)?
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